Wei Zhang
Senior Software Engineer at Riot Games
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWei Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in game and VR development, currently improving player experience on League of Legends at Riot Games. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Purdue and an MS in Game Development from USC, and transitioned from academic VR research—where he built a multiplayer VR molecular visualization platform used in education and conferences—to full-time game engineering. At Riot he progressed from intern to senior engineer, shipping features for competitive play while bringing a strong gameplay-first engineering mindset. Outside work he prototypes indie games, documents his thoughts through weekly game reviews, and has hands-on experience in localization and teaching—skills that help bridge technical, design, and player-facing concerns.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.7, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 3.7 at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.65, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.65 at Purdue University
Github Skills (2)
defense2
python1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
diglungdig/QuietVR
Sep 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:5 releases, 34 commits, 33 pushes in 4 years
diglungdig/GameDevelopmentWei
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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